{Lutheran Theological Seminary and Waterloo College
Waterloo, Ontario} Nov. 3rd, 1922
Dear Mother:
As I am going down to Port Colborne to-morrow I thought I would save myself a little inconvenience by writing to you to-night. I will probably not get back home before Monday night as our Sunday School Convention meets at Galt on Monday and I am booked for a speech at that assembly. Next Sunday I will preach at Hamilton and hold communion there and the following Sunday I will preach at Brantford. So you see my November Sundays are pretty well taken up. On Wednesday night of this week Dr. Maurer held a congregational rally in First English and had Prof. Willison and myself to make addresses. After the service in the Church a supper was served in the basement, and which is surprising in these days, was free of charge. Bonnie went down with me on that occasion. This week Bonnie received a letter from Don’s wife informing her that her former step-mother was in a bad way, on the point of nervous prostration and almost verging on insanity and that she is now in the General Hospital at Halifax for at least six months under treatment and observation. She is evidently getting paid for her hoggishness in knocking the children out of their rights. Bonnie hadn’t heard from her for a couple of months and didn’t know what the trouble was until Mrs. I. B.’s sister wrote her the other day. They succeeded in getting Lynton placed in the Sanitorium permanently or at least for the winter. Meda feels about as keenly over the way she was treated as does Bonnie. Meda’s address in New York is 339 E. 51st St. I believe Pearl asked for it in one of her letters. Monday is our Thanksgiving Day here in Canada. In consequence we will have no school on that day, but will resume work again on Tuesday morning. The school is going along fine, only the new Professor of Classics is not filling the bill very well. He is an old stogie and somewhat out of date in his methods. We may not keep him longer than
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Christmas. Work on the new building was begun this week and the workmen are quite busy on the excavation. I don’t think muck more will be done this fall that to lay the foundation. But that will be a start and after the foundation has stood over winter and settled they can begin work early in the spring and probably have the building finished by the opening of the fall term next year. Arthur finished up examinations in his room this week. He made the highest average in his room and stood first. Ruth and Eileen have great times together. Eileen picks her up and carries her around like a cat does her kitten. Some times I get after her about it. The other day Robert picked Ruth up and was carrying her around that way and Eileen became excited and ran over to me and said “Father, Father, look at Robert, he’s carrying Ruth around like a lunatic!”. Ruth is quite as ready to wait on me as Eileen used to be at her age. Whenever I come in she brings me my slippers to put on and carries my shoes into the closet. She also helps me to kill flies when their [?] around. She talks quite a bit and understands everything. I am glad to say that house-cleaning is over again till next spring. It’s a good thing you don’t have such an institution in the South. I suppose by this time you have seen Rev. Kaegley and Dr. Perry. I told them they should remember me to you. My cider is getting quite good now and I expect to have wine equal to the imported article when it properly matures. I sent Bikle and Hazel my recipe soon after coming back last summer. So it oughtn’t to be so dry at his place next year. We are still able to get grapes here on the market, but the crop will soon be exhausted. The weather has been exceedingly mild so far and I still have nearly half the ton of coal I bought some time ago. This summer the town authorities trimmed our trees on account of the electric wires and bobbed them so close that they look like “flappers”. They look anything but nice now but will probably look better when they put out next spring. The leaves are nearly all off the trees now. Our College Rugby team played their last game of the season Thursday and won over the Collegiate. St. Jerome’s team stood first, ours second and the Collegiate third in the League. Well, I must close for this time. With much love to you all, I am
Most Sincerely yours,
[signed] Carroll H. Little.
